Managing and Troubleshooting Disks and Volumes

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Alex: Managing and Troubleshooting Disks and Volumes

• Explain the use of basic and dynamic disks
• Manage hard disks by using the Disk Management tool
• Manage hard disks on a remote computer in Computer Management
• Manage disks from the command line by using the Diskpart command
• Troubleshoot disks and volumes
• Work with removable media

Managing Compression

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Megan: Managing Compression

• Explain the purpose of compressed folders
• Compress files, folders, or volumes by using NTFS compression

Managing Disk Quotas

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Patrick: Managing Disk Quotas

• Describe the purpose of disk quotas
• Set disk quotas for users
• Determine the status of disk quotas
• Monitor disk quotas
• Identify guidelines for using disk quotas

Increasing Security by Using EFS

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Taylor: Increasing Security by Using EFS

• Describe EFS
• Encrypt folders and files
• Decrypt folders and files
• Control encryption from the command line by using the Cipher command
• Create an EFS recovery agent

Maintaining Disks with Disk Defrag, Check Disk, and Disk Cleanup

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Edward ~Link

• Use Disk Defragmenter to organize your hard drives
• Use Check Disk to search for and repair file system errors and to recover readable information from bad sectors
• Use Disk Cleanup to remove unnecessary files from your hard drives

Configuring Offline Folders and Files

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• Enable the Offline Files feature on your computer
• Make folders and files available offline
• Configure your computer to share folders for use offline
• Synchronize offline folders and files